Truck In Cairo Overturns, Killing 29 Child Workers

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September 17, 1997

CAIRO, EGYPT — A truck ran off a road and overturned in a canal north of Cairo on Tuesday, killing 29 children and injuring 54 others, police said. The children were on their way to pick cotton in fields in Kafr el-Sheik, 75 miles north of Cairo, police officials said. A police statement said the victims were between 14 and 17 years old, but police in Maseer, the village outside Kafr el-Sheik where the accident occurred, said some children were as young as 12.